Hi, the day care center where my baby stays hascameras so parents can see their child all the time.There is no problem looking at this images witha pc with microsoft windows but I have not beenable to see it with my linux computers. The guyat the center says I must install windows and Active Xsoftware. I have rh7.3 at home, enterprise linux at workand debian on my laptop. I don't want to install windows.Is there a way around this problem? I have googled but cannot find anything usefull.Please help a linux mom

While I'm 99% sure that you can't get native Active X support in Linux (even if you could, I wouldn't suggest it. Active X is one of the top ways a malicous user/site damages your computer), I do belive you can use wine to run Iexplorer, and perhaps you can view it through that?

Yeah, you can't get Active X controls to work natively in linux, this is a proprietary thing that Microsoft has done. However, as Termina suggested, you can install IE6 in linux and perhaps it may work through that, i really don't know if you can get Active X controls to work through wine because i've never really tried it.

Luckily, there is a HOWTO on the Gentoo forums with getting IE6 working in linux. I quickly read through the HOWTO, and it doesn't appear to be Gentoo-specific.

Thanks for the tip. I've never used wine or IE but I'll try toget it working. I'ts really sad that there are still reasons we mustuse windows/microsoft. I noticed a discussion on why anybody would want to runIE on linux, maybe I should post saying 'because I want tosee my baby!'

Thanks for the tip. I've never used wine or IE but I'll try toget it working. I'ts really sad that there are still reasons we mustuse windows/microsoft. I noticed a discussion on why anybody would want to runIE on linux, maybe I should post saying 'because I want tosee my baby!'

thanks,C

I'm using a visual basic 6.0 program on wine. I get the same error about active x, but it happens during a call to the webbrowser1 control which is vb's internal call to built in mini IE explorer version. has anyone run into this? Any feedback or where to look for an answer would be helpful.